dar1976:
lilysgranpa:
I love Stobarts.And me
. I overtook one today and waved
With how many fingers tho ■■ 
haribo4000:
I am waiting for the positions to come up, always fancied car transporters. Wonder if I could transfer.
You may not find cartransporters as easy as they look ! A lot of drivers start the job and then find it’s not that simple can’t hack it and leave ! Ive been at it 14 years (ecm) and Ive seen them come and Ive seeen them go ! 
jezzzer:
haribo4000:
I am waiting for the positions to come up, always fancied car transporters. Wonder if I could transfer.You may not find cartransporters as easy as they look ! A lot of drivers start the job and then find it’s not that simple can’t hack it and leave ! Ive been at it 14 years (ecm) and Ive seen them come and Ive seeen them go !
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It is amazing how many people at Ontime didn’t like cars. I was a bit of a petrol head so enjoyed doing the handovers and appraisals. If I got a baby sitting job at a race circuit it was my piece of heaven 
But I saw the same thing, there is a lot to go wrong and a lot of waiting around for pompous salesman, a good dealer is worth his weight in gold
jezzzer:
You may not find cartransporters as easy as they look ! A lot of drivers start the job and then find it’s not that simple can’t hack it and leave ! Ive been at it 14 years (ecm) and Ive seen them come and Ive seeen them go !
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Yep, for every 10 that start roughly 8 will have left or been sacked within 6 months.
Its not a job for everyone.
jezzzer:
You may not find cartransporters as easy as they look ! A lot of drivers start the job and then find it’s not that simple can’t hack it and leave ! Ive been at it 14 years (ecm) and Ive seen them come and Ive seeen them go !
Sweat your rocks off in the summer, ■■■■■■ wet through in the winter.
Stan
Stanley Knife:
jezzzer:
You may not find cartransporters as easy as they look ! A lot of drivers start the job and then find it’s not that simple can’t hack it and leave ! Ive been at it 14 years (ecm) and Ive seen them come and Ive seeen them go !Sweat your rocks off in the summer, ■■■■■■ wet through in the winter.
Stan
And you still have to look presentable as you drive that new car onto the forecourt and walk into the showroom with the Jones family watching you. Imagine ever trying to look serious in an Elf uniform 
Stanley Knife:
Sweat your rocks off in the summer, ■■■■■■ wet through in the winter.Stan
Yeah, but if you can stand a proper days work then £40k+ plus nights out goes some way to aleviating the hardships…
Never been able to work out how ECM drivers always look so clean, when i’d done a hard day i’d have passed for the bloody chimney sweep, must be the hourly pay workrate… 
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The reason I want to get into car transporting is that I want to graft.
I’m sick to death of sitting in RDC’s for hours on end. I always had a job grafting before getting into haulage, I miss it!
waynedl:
The Pariah:
whilst the people in the board room can buy an Austin Martin as a run aroundWhat’s an Austin Martin? Sounds like a sports car that would lose a door handle as it left the showroom
This is an Austin Martin…apparently
You’d think someone would have checked the thing before signing-off a load of commemorative plates… 
macplaxton:
waynedl:
The Pariah:
whilst the people in the board room can buy an Austin Martin as a run aroundWhat’s an Austin Martin? Sounds like a sports car that would lose a door handle as it left the showroom
This is an Austin Martin…apparently
You’d think someone would have checked the thing before signing-off a load of commemorative plates…
So that’s why I cant find my new car on Axa’s website!
macplaxton:
waynedl:
The Pariah:
whilst the people in the board room can buy an Austin Martin as a run aroundWhat’s an Austin Martin? Sounds like a sports car that would lose a door handle as it left the showroom
This is an Austin Martin…apparently
You’d think someone would have checked the thing before signing-off a load of commemorative plates…
Well it aint good but it aint a million miles off
haribo4000:
The reason I want to get into car transporting is that I want to graft.
I’m sick to death of sitting in RDC’s for hours on end. I always had a job grafting before getting into haulage, I miss it!
You shouldn’t have any bother getting in, apparently the last batch trained up at Doncaster all buggered off within weeks.
Juddian:
jezzzer:
Yep, for every 10 that start roughly 8 will have left or been sacked within 6 months.Its not a job for everyone.
it’s only 10% who pass selection for the regiment! many come, many fail! 
no pink chalk on PEN - Y - FAN! winter selection is easier than summer selection though!
AndyH71:
+100000000000
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Juddian:
jezzzer:
You may not find cartransporters as easy as they look ! A lot of drivers start the job and then find it’s not that simple can’t hack it and leave ! Ive been at it 14 years (ecm) and Ive seen them come and Ive seeen them go !
Yep, for every 10 that start roughly 8 will have left or been sacked within 6 months.
Its not a job for everyone.
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Autologic do appear to have a serious problem recruiting / retaining drivers. They are struggling to cover the work they have at the moment (in the quiet period!, before new registrations come out), and are offering drivers various incentives to get them to work weekends to try and cope. For an industry that used to be dead mans shoes, if you do a search on the internet, they are looking for drivers in Washington, Wellingborough, Derby, Stoke and Southampton amongst others.
More interestingly, however, they appear to be looking to source drivers through agencies (Sheerness and Sandtoft nr Doncaster), almost unheard of in this industry…
cv-library.co.uk/cgi-bin/vie … 7&s=100429
For those interested, must have experience in the transporter industry, £10.25 per hour. Plus overtime, nights out, etc.
Also looking to recruit traffic planners for HQ in Northampton. £15-£20k per year depending on experience. Pay peanuts, get monkeys, a major problem at Autologic…
Lank:
More interestingly, however, they appear to be looking to source drivers through agencies (Sheerness and Sandtoft nr Doncaster), almost unheard of in this industry…cv-library.co.uk/cgi-bin/vie … 7&s=100429
For those interested, must have experience in the transporter industry, £10.25 per hour. Plus overtime, nights out, etc.
Thats very interesting about the agency jobs, is it definately Autologic?
I ask because some of my old mates are on Igloo, but for Gefco, and they earn considerably better rates than than that.
£10.25 is rubbish for car transporters, no one worth their salt should be giving of their skills…and it is a very skilled job…for crap rates like that (Christ’s sake Igloo pay £10 basic on days on Argos which is pish easy), across the board however its worked out it should equate to about £15 an hour by the end of a full week.
Juddian:
Lank:
More interestingly, however, they appear to be looking to source drivers through agencies (Sheerness and Sandtoft nr Doncaster), almost unheard of in this industry…cv-library.co.uk/cgi-bin/vie … 7&s=100429
For those interested, must have experience in the transporter industry, £10.25 per hour. Plus overtime, nights out, etc.
Thats very interesting about the agency jobs, is it definately Autologic?
I ask because some of my old mates are on Igloo, but for Gefco, and they earn considerably better rates than than that.
£10.25 is rubbish for car transporters, no one worth their salt should be giving of their skills…and it is a very skilled job…for crap rates like that (Christ’s sake Igloo pay £10 basic on days on Argos which is pish easy), across the board however its worked out it should equate to about £15 an hour by the end of a full week.
I put Autologic into a search engine and it came up, but reviewing it I made a mistake. The Sandtoft / Sheerness connection and Gefco would make more sense.
As you say though, it is pretty poor money for the job. If you look at the Igloo website, the £10.25 per hour on car transporters is about the LOWEST wage they pay, Class 2 or Class 1, less than store deliveries, containers etc. Earning less to do a harder job may stop many sane people from applying…
Lank:
As you say though, it is pretty poor money for the job. If you look at the Igloo website, the £10.25 per hour on car transporters is about the LOWEST wage they pay, Class 2 or Class 1, less than store deliveries, containers etc. Earning less to do a harder job may stop many sane people from applying…
If someone’s desperate to get back into it then i suppose it might do at a push, but like you i reckon no bugger worth his salt is going to apply unless they have serious money troubles.
They couldn’t bloody pay me enough to do it again, trouble is that most car carrier recruiters suffer from the same disease as agency bods…it manifests itself as the inability to tell the truth.
I don’t wave at stobart drivers, i stand and salute them.
My dad works for Autologic and loves it. He earns considerably more than £10 per hour once all his bonuses are taken into account. Closer to £40-£40k a year. It’s hard work but if you put the graft in the rewards are there.